Adults Are Ruining ‘6-7’ for Halloween
For months now, parents and teachers have been plagued by a baffling scourge: Tweens gleefully shouting “six-seven,” a sort of verbal meme that basically means nothing but has taken over as a mass inside joke in classrooms across the country. If you think that sounds stupid, that’s kind of the point — adults are not supposed to understand “six-seven.”
But now, a lot of us do. In the past few weeks, “six-seven” has become so pervasive that the over-15 population has managed to figure out what it means (again, nothing) and get in on the joke. Naturally, this has immediately rendered “six-seven” lame.
The final nail in the coffin: A brave assortment of parents and teachers are dressing up as “six-seven” for Halloween. I am not a tween, but I was once, and I can’t imagine anything more mortifying than my parents DIY-ing costumes about something I thought was cool less than a week ago. At least the adults are having a blast:
Our kids hate our Halloween costume. pic.twitter.com/1A0vvU96H2
— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) October 25, 2025
Same. The kids hated it, all the parents loved it at our neighborhood Trick Or Treat/Chili Cookoff. pic.twitter.com/tzptpQsJgM
— Jeremy A Williams @jeremyawilliams: Threads (@jeremyawilliams) October 27, 2025
Thank you to these visionaries for finally putting “six-seven” to bed by making it deeply uncool. Sometimes, cringe can be the most powerful weapon of them all.
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